REJECTED: Web Albums HD (for using Pinch-to-expand)
The unfair iPad rejections have started. Web Albums shows galleries of photos, and so they decided to provide the gesture that Apple has added to iPad for quickly previewing an album. Oh no, says Apple:
Apple sent a letter to the developers noting that the pinch to expand feature is “associated solely with Apple applications.”
This seems to be a gradual expansion of Apple’s “don’t directly compete with our apps on functionality” – now, you’re not allowed to compete on looks and usability either.
Where next? “REJECTED: your app is “good”; only Apple apps are allowed to be “good”; please fix your app to make it suck, and then we can accept it”… ;)
